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The Great Conveyor Belt Of Sol Running FastHuntsville AL (SPX) Mar 15, 2010 NASA solar physicist David Hathaway reports that the top of the sun's Great Conveyor Belt has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years. "I believe this could explain the unusually deep solar minimum we've been experiencing," says Hathaway. "The high speed of the conveyor belt challenges existing models of the solar cycle and it has forced us back to the drawing board for new ideas." The Great Conveyor Belt is a massive circulating current of fire (hot plasma) within the sun. It h ... read more |
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Leicester UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2010Space physicists from the University of Leicester are part of an international team that has identified the impact of the Sun on Mars' atmosphere. Writing in the AGU journal Geophysics Research Letters, the scientists report that Mars is constantly losing part of its atmosphere to space. The new study shows that pressure from solar wind pulses is a significant contributor to Mars's atmosph ... more  
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2010"I knew we were going somewhere," Hubble Space Telescope (HST) repair astronaut Michael Massimino told me recently, when asked what it's like to launch aboard the Space Shuttle. "You just hold on and let's try to enjoy it because you really can't do much about it anyway!" His latest mission was designated STS-125 aboard Atlantis, and it was slated to be the final flight to service Hubble b ... more  
Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 12, 2010The second crash test of a small lightweight helicopter at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was a smashing success, literally - just as engineers had predicted. "Three, two, one, release," said the technician on the loudspeaker at the Landing and Impact Research Facility. With that countdown the helicopter smacked hard into the concrete. Its skid gear collapsed, its windsc ... more |
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UK Buys Another Skynet 5 Military Comms SatellitePortsmouth UK (SPX) Mar 12, 2010 Paradigm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium Services, has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to extend and enhance the Skynet 5 private finance initiative (PFI) programme. This will involve the manufacture, launch, test and operation of a fourth satellite, Skynet 5D, and the extension of the Skynet 5 contract by two years until 2022. The contract extension will guarantee UK MOD additional capacity on the Skynet 5 constellation. Eric Beranger, CEO of Astrium Services s ... read more |
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